Due to the level of insecurity in the region, the Onion Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (OPMAN) have stated their plans to seize supply of onions to the Southeast.
Aliyu Isah, the National President of OPMAN, said the association’s decision was based on the recent hijack of two of their members’ trucks by gunmen. Two truckloads of onions from the North were intercepted and raided by the gunmen.
Onion farmers in Sokoto lost goods worth N2.4 billion to a fire incident. The cause of the fire was still unknown but one of the victims, Umaru Aliyu Gidan Fadama, said that the fire started at about 12.30am on Wedneday, June 2, from Yan doya market otherwise known as Ramin Kura.
He said;
“We were told that it started from a Golf vehicle that was offloading yams at the market and later spread to other places including where our storage facilities are.
“I personally lost 60 bags of onion and I know some that have lost more than 100 bags.”
